Quantitative Engineer/Developer Quantitative Engineer/Developer …

Anson McCade
in London, United Kingdom
Permanent, Full time
Last application, 02 Mar 21
GBP100000 - GBP180000 per annum + perfomance based bonus
Anson McCade
in London, United Kingdom
Permanent, Full time
Last application, 02 Mar 21
GBP100000 - GBP180000 per annum + perfomance based bonus
Anson McCade
Exciting quant engineer/development opportunities for an exciting company. Here you can have a real impact on what they are building and influence the way the project goes.

Quantitative Engineer

London based

Under the leadership of the Chief Technology Officer, our client has launched a multi-year project, to redevelop and modernize the full technology stack, encompassing pricing and other analytics, risk management, market data and trade capture and reporting.

This project is nearing the end of phase one, which over the past year and a half of fast-paced exploration, design and delivery, has successfully delivered to production several key components and established the core engineering required for the new platform.

As they move into phase two, which will involve multiple and varied projects running in parallel, they have opportunities for a select few new hires to join the team.

This is a rare chance to work with and learn from the team of extremely highly regarded, experienced and friendly software engineers. Every employee has the opportunity to make a real impact to the business. The engineering team are open to new technologies and creative ideas.

Responsibilities:

  • Be part of the team responsible for the major build-out of functionality on the new platform, using a combination of Rust and Python
  • Project including but not limited to:
    • Trade modelling and pricing
    • Market data processing
    • Risk reporting
    • Scenario analytics tools
    • Dev Ops / platform engineering
  • Participate in BAU support rota (shared across Strats and Technology), providing useful opportunities to interact with colleagues across diverse areas of the business.

In general, they are looking for smart, commercial, problem-solving-oriented, "get-things-done" candidates with a proven track record of delivering robust, high performance software and quantitative analyses and with either experience in financial markets or a keen interest to learn about them.

Requirements:

  • Advanced analytical skills (typically evidenced by a degree in maths, physics, computer science, engineering, etc.).
  • A deep passion for technology and software development.
  • Excellence in applied programming skills - Python, Rust, C++ or other major languages.
  • A team player with excellent communication skills.
  • Demonstrable, applied expertise in creating and validating pricing and/or risk models for use in a financial services organisation.
  • Understanding of Fixed Income products and derivatives.
  • A broad understanding of model risk, bringing new approaches and processes.
  • Python programming experience.
  • Rust programming experience.
  • A track record of contributions to an open source project.
  • Linux/Unix experience
  • Microsoft Windows experience
  • Cloud computing experience

Company Overview

About Us

Anson McCade is a specialist recruitment agency headquartered in London, with further offices in Belfast, Paris & Sydney. Operating internationally, we provide high-end, niche executive search and recruitment services within our chosen markets on a contingency or search basis.  Founded at the turn of the millennium, for 20 years and counting we have specialised in connecting the most sought after talent with our industry leading clients across the IT and Capital Markets sectors. Within these sectors we work across four main verticals; quantitative research trading & risk, digital & analytics, information technology & security, and business change, transformation & strategy.

In an ever changing business and technological landscape, the need for exceptional, agile talent is crucial to almost every organisation’s success over the long term. We target the highest calibre, most relevant individuals possible for each mandate we undertake, achieving this through a consultative, research focused approach to networking, this in addition to access to a substantial range of resources, both in-house and on-line. Our consistent success in doing so over the years has resulted in an impressive portfolio of high-end, blue chip and boutique clients, many of whom we have worked with continuously as a premier recruitment partner for over a decade.

Anson McCade has been recognised as being instrumental in the growth of some of the world’s leading organisations and most innovative start-ups. Our consultants are industry experts who understand the challenges that many organisations face in today’s frenetic and unpredictable technical and business climate, as well as the diversity, skills matrix variance and mix of ambitions and expectations of the candidates we work with.

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